О смерти и славе лейтенанта Пеги
The Death and Glory of Lieutenant Péguy

Summary/Abstract: This article talks about the poet, the philosopher, and the publicist Charles Péguy who died in battle on September 5, 1914. Péguy left on the front as the volunteer. In his journalism, he spoke about the reasons of inevitably approaching world war originating from the outcomes of the French-Prussian war, Dreyfus affair, First Moroccan Crisis. The Péguy’s attitude to war and to the German threat caused strong opposition from pacifistic adjusted circles of the French intellectuals and pushed him away from former friends and colleagues, in particular, from R. Rolland. Even nowadays, his position is viewed as ambiguous. Quite often Péguy is called the nationalist and the revanchist, but such assessment is definitely too simplified. To understand the writer’s position on war, one needs to comprehend his complex philosophical concept considering the History from the Christocentrism point of view. The Péguy’s attitude to war is closely related to such permanent concepts of his philosophy of history and creativity as race, glory, death, eras and the periods. This article continues the discussion about the life and work of Charles Péguy, again started because of the centennial anniversary of the beginning of the First World War and the death of Péguy on its front. The article is based on a wide range of Russian and French historiography, works of Charles Peguy.

• Details
• Contents